James Mercer Quotes
I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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To allow this program to lapse could potentially jeopardize thousands of dairy farms throughout the United States.
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So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
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The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.
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I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.
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I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.
